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Ned O’Gorman Associate Professor Department of of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 325 Communication Building, MC-456 1207 Oregon St. Urbana, IL 61801 USA Office Phone: 217.265.0859 Email: [email protected] Web: http://nogorman.org

Education Ph.D., 2005, The Pennsylvania State University M.Div., Covenant Theological Seminary M.A., University of Tennessee B.A., Saint Louis University

Academic Appointments and Affiliations 2012-present, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Illinois 2015-16, Visiting Faculty Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia 2005-present, Core Faculty, Center for Writing Studies, University of Illinois 2010-present, Core Faculty, Program for Arms Control, Defense, and International Security 2012-13, Faculty Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois 2005-2012, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Illinois

Awards & Honors 2103-18, Conrad Humanities Professorial Scholar, University of Illinois 2014, College of Liberal Arts & Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Illinois 2012-13, Center for Advanced Study Fellow, University of Illinois 2013-15, Faculty Member, INTERSECT initiative in Studies, Graduate College, University of Illinois. 2010, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (through Vectors/USC Summer Institute) 2010, Illinois Program for in the Humanities, Collaborative Research Project Award 2007-08, Humanities Release Time Award, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2006-07, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois 2006, Article of the Year Award, Religious Communication Association

Administrative Appointments 2013-2015, Associate Head, Department of Communication, University of Illinois

Books 2016, The Iconoclastic Imagination: Image, Catastrophe, and in America since the Kennedy Assassination, University of Chicago Press 2011, Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy, Michigan State University Press (reviewed in The New Republic, Presidential Studies Quarterly, North Dakota ; Review of , Rhetoric Quarterly; Rhetoric and Public Affairs; CHOICE, HNet Reviews) Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters 2016, “EG&G and the Deep Media of Timing, Firing, and Exposing,” Journal of War and Culture Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2: 182-201 2016, with Kevin Hamilton, “The Sensibility of the State: Operation Ivy and the Appearance of the Cold War ‘Super’,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Vol. 19, No. 1: 1-44 2015, with Kevin Hamilton, “Visualities of Strategic Vision: Lookout Mountain Laboratory and the Deterrent State from Nuclear Tests to Vietnam,” Visual Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2: 195–208 2015, “Milton, Hobbes, and Rhetorical Freedom,” Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 18, No. 2: 162-180 2013, with Ian Hill, “Burke, Mumford, and the Poetics of Technology: Marxism’s Influence on Burke’s Critique of Techno-,” in Dana Anderson and Jessica Enoch (eds.), Burke in the Archives: Using the Past to Transform the of Burkean Studies, University of South Carolina Press 2013, “Hobbes, Desire, and Democratization of Rhetoric,” Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 16, No. 1: 1- 28 2012, “From Jeremiad to Manifesto: The Rhetorical Evolution of John Foster Dulles’s ‘Massive Retaliation,” in John Carlson and Jonathan Ebel (eds.), From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America, University of California Press 2011, “The Diffusion of an Atomic Icon: Nuclear Hegemony and Cultural Memory Loss,” with Kevin Hamilton, in Anne Demo and Bradford Vivian (eds.), Sighting Memory: The Intersection of Visual Practices and Practices of Memory, Routledge 2011, “At the Interface: The Loaded Rhetorical Gestures of Nuclear Legitimation,” with Kevin Hamilton, Communication and Critical/, Vol. 8, No. 1: 41-66 2009 Article, “‘The one word the Kremlin fears:’ C. D. Jackson, Cold War ‘Liberation,’ and American Political-Economic Adventurism,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 3: 389-427 2008 Article, “Eisenhower and the American Sublime,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 94, No. 1: 44-72 2006 Article, “The Political Sublime, An Oxymoron,” Millennium Journal of International Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3: 889-915 2005 Article, “‘Telling the Truth:’ Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Rhetorical Discourse Ethic,” Journal of Communication and Religion, Vol. 28, No. 2: 224-248 2005 Article, “Aristotle’s Phantasia in the Rhetoric: Lexis, Appearance, and the Epideictic Function of Discourse,” and Rhetoric, Vol. 38, No. 1: 16-40 2004 Article, “Longinus’s Sublime Rhetoric, or How Rhetoric Came into Its Own,” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 2: 71-89 Forthcoming, “‘The Logic and Rhetoric of Power’: George F. Kennan, Paul H. Ntize, and the Rhetoric of Cold War Planning,” in The Rhetorical History of the United States: The Cold War, Vol. 8, edited by Martin J. Medhurst, Michigan State University Press

Reviews and Other Publications 2016, with Kevin Hamilton, “Filming a Nuclear State: The USAF’s Lookout Mountain Laboratory,” in Doug Cunningham and John Nelson (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to War Film, Wiley Blackwell 2015, “A Politics without Politics: The Iconoclastic Turn in American Public Life,” The Hedgehog Review, Vol. 17, No. 1 2014, Review of Letters to Power by Samual McCormick, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 100, No. 3: 397-402 2013, “The Moral Critic: An Act in Several ,” in James Kuypers (ed.), Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy in Rhetorical Criticism, Lexington Books 2013, Review of The Spiritual Industrial Complex: America’s Religious Battle Against Communism in the Early Cold War by Jonathan P. Herzog and Faith and War: How Christians Debated the Cold and Vietnam Wars by David E. Settje, Politics and Religion, Vol. 6, No. 3: 671-678 2011, with Kevin Hamilton and Rohini Singh, “Lights, Camera, Detonation,” Communication Currents, Vol. 6, No. 2 2011, “Stoic Rhetoric: Prospects of a Problematic,” Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 11. No. 1: 1-13 2010, with Kevin Hamilton, “Public : A Call,” SBE 2020, National Science Foundation

2 2010, Review of “Public Science: A Call,” National Science Foundation Leadership by Keith Yellin, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 96, No. 1: 110-112 2008, “Evangelicalism Nearsighted: A Response to Melanie McAlister,” American Literary History, Vol. 20, No. 4: 896-900 2008, “Three Cheers for Democratic Style! (Okay, maybe just two),” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 2008, Vol. 11, No. 3: 450-453 2006, “Disaster, Democracy, and the Problem of the Sublime,” Media Development, Vol. 53, No. 4: 3 2006, Review of The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition edited by Richard Graff, Arthur Walzer, and Janet Atwill, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 1: 107-113 2003, Review of Logic and the Art of Memory by Paolo Rossi, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 36, No. 2: 168-172

Under Review 2016, with Bryan Taylor, Hamilton Bean, and Rebecca Rice, “A Fearful Engine of Power: Conceptualizing the Communication – Security Relationship,” Annals of the International Communication Association 2016, with Katie P. Bruner, Paul R. McKean, Matthew C. Pitchford, and Nikki R. Weickum, “Old Rhetoric and New Media,” review essay in Rhetoric & Public Affairs discussing Douglas Eyman, Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice; John Durham Peters, The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media; Damien Smith Pfister, Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics: Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere; Jim Rodolfo and William Hart-Davidson Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities

Invited Presentations 2016, Keynote Address, “The Image of the State, and the State of the Image,” Postwar Faculty Colloquium, University of North Texas 2016, Research Talk, University of Virginia, Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture, “The Iconoclastic Imagination: A Symposium on Ned O’Gorman’s The Iconoclastic Imagination” 2015, Research Talk, University of Virginia, Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture, “The One and the Three: Beginnings of Media Theory” 2014, Keynote Address, 2014 American Society for the History of Rhetoric Symposium, San Antonio, “Rhetorical Freedom, and Freedom from Rhetoric” 2014, Research Talk, University of Virginia Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture, “Eisenhower, Little Rock, and the Neoliberal Imaginary” 2013, Webinar leader on Kenneth Burke, Organized by Jack Selzer and Debra Hawhee at Penn State University and put on in cooperation with the Rhetoric Society of America 2012, Research Talk, University of Virginia, “Catastrophes, Liberalisms, and Discourses of World Order,” Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture 2012, with Kevin Hamilton, Research Talk, University of Illinois, Presentation at the Program for Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security’s Workshop in International Security 2012, with Kevin Hamilton, Research Talk, University of Illinois, Program for Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, “Picturing the Bomb” 2011, with Kevin Hamilton, Research Talk, University of Kansas, Hall Center for the Humanities, “Where is the Nuclear Sovereign?” 2010, with Kevin Hamilton, Research Talk, Northwestern University, “We are All Operators Now: Gender at the Cold War (Nuclear) Console” 2010, with Kevin Hamilton, Research Talk, University of Illinois, Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research “NSF-SBE: The Illinois Voice” Meeting, “Public Science: A Call” 2009, Research Talk, University of Kansas, Department of Communication, invited colloquium speaker, “Stoic Rhetoric and Cold War ‘Containment’: A Case Study in a ‘Form of Language’” 2008, Respondent, American Literary History Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2007, Research Talk, Arizona State University, The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Massive Retaliation”

3 2007, Research Talk, “From Jeremiad to Manifesto: The Rhetorical Evolution of John Foster Dulles’s ‘Massive Retaliation’,” University of Illinois Program for the Study of Religion Symposium on Religion, Violence, and America

Grants 2011, with Kevin Hamilton, $50,000, Start-up Grant in the Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities 2010, with Kevin Hamilton, $11,276, University of Illinois Campus Research Board Support Funding Award 2007, $8, 013, University of Illinois Campus Research Board Research Support Funding Award

Conference Participation 2016, “Toward a Philosophy of Procedural Rhetoric,” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Atlanta 2016, “The Short History of the Putney Debates: An Introduction,” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Atlanta 2015, with Kevin Hamilton, “The Business of Timing: EG&G and the Temporal Technics of Military Firing,” National Communication Association, Las Vegas 2014, “Hobbes and the Sensibility of the State,” National Communication Association, Chicago 2014, “The Other Cold War Laboratory: Lookout Mountain Film Studio and the Rhetorical of the American Cold War State,” National Communication Association, Chicago 2014, with Kevin Hamilton, “The Sensibility of the State: Lookout Mountain’s Operation Ivy,” National Communication Association, Chicago 2014, “James Harrington: Rhetoric and ad hoc Political Philosophy,” Rhetoric Society of America, San Antonio 2014, with Kevin Hamilton, “The Business of Timing: EG&G and the Temporal Logics of Cold War Photography,” Business of War Photography, University of Durham, England 2014, with Kevin Hamilton, “The Sensibility of the State: The U.S. Air Force’s Lookout Mountain Laboratory,” Cold War Camera, Antigua, Guatemala 2013, “The Art of Cunning: Engineering Drone Warfare,” National Communication Association, Washington D.C. 2012, with Kevin Hamilton, “The Half Life of Empire: Creative Research on Cold War Remains,” American Studies Association, Puerto Rico 2012, with Kevin Hamilton, “A Nuclear Synthesis: Science, America, and Hollywood in the Films of the USAF’s Lookout Mountain Laboratory,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston 2012, “Locke as “Critical” Rhetorical Theorist in the Two Treatises of Government,” Rhetoric Society of America, Philadelphia 2011, “Power as Sublimity,” National Communication Association, New Orleans 2011, Respondent, “The Voice of Power in the Sublime,” National Communication Association, New Orleans 2010, Review of Lois Agnew’s Outward Visible Propriety, National Communication Association, San Francisco 2010, “Hobbes and the Democratization of Rhetoric,” Rhetoric Society of America, San Francisco 2009, “The Kitchen Debates and Ampex Color Tape: Technology and Cold War Order,” National Communication Association, Chicago 2009, “The Sublime as a Critique of Power,” National Communication Association, Chicago 2009, Respondent, “The Kitchen Debate 1959-2009: Containment Culture and the Good Life,” National Communication Association, Chicago 2009, Panel Participant, “The Undergraduate Introduction to Rhetorical Theory and History Course: A Roundtable Discussion,” National Communication Association, Chicago 2009, Panel Participant, “‘Five Years Out’ for the American Society for the History of Rhetoric,” National Communication Association, San Francisco 2009, with Kevin Hamilton, “Nuclear Memory at the Interface,” Visible Memories, Syracuse University 2008, Chair and Organizer, “Stoicism, Rhetorical Theory, and Ethico-Political Practice,” National Communication Association, San Diego

4 2008, “Freud, Stoicism, and George F. Kennan’s Containment,” National Communication Association, San Diego 2008, with Sabrina Nash, “The Form of Peace: Kant’s Political Imaginary in Perpetual Peace,” National Communication Association, San Diego 2008, “Rousseau and the Rhetoric of National Security,” Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle 2007, with Kevin Hamilton, “‘No Simple Thing to Do’: Interface and Atomic Citizenship in Operation Ivy,” Visual Democracy, Northwestern University 2007, Chair, “Performative Utterances: the Force of Rhetoric in Antiquity and Beyond,” National Communication Association, Chicago 2007, with Dave Tell, “The Jeremiad, Manifesto, and Confession: A Typology of Puritan Protest,” American Society for the History of Rhetoric Symposium, Chicago 2006, with Ilon Lauer, “Longinus and the Extension of Rhetorical Education: Teaching the Sublime,” Rhetoric Society of America, Memphis 2006, “The Stench of Guile: The Anti-Rhetoric of Sophocles’ Philoctetes,” Rhetoric Society of America, Memphis 2006, Chair, “Ancient Si(gh)tings of Classical Rhetoric,” National Communication Association, San Antonio 2006, Panel Participant, “Democratic Style,” National Communication Association, San Antonio 2006, “Eisenhower and the American Sublime,” National Communication Association, San Antonio 2006, Respondent, “Theoretical and Critical Investigations of Narrative,” National Communication Association, San Antonio 2006, Respondent, “Typology, Topography, and the Topoi of Reason in Ancient Attika,” National Communication Association, San Antonio 2005, “The Political Sublime: An Oxymoron,” Millennium Conference, London School of , London 2005, “Rhapsodic Rhetoric and Democracy: Nietzsche and the Sublime,” National Communication Association, Boston 2005, “Sublime Love, or How Jacqueline Kennedy Got Framed by Life,” National Communication Association, Boston 2005, Panel Participant, “The Current Health of the Longitudinal Case Study in Rhetorical Criticism: A Roundtable Discussion,” National Communication Association, Boston

Symposium Organizer 2015, with Danielle Endres, Nate Atkinson, and Ian Hill, “Command, Control, and Communication: Scholarly Perspectives on Seventy Years of Nuclear Weapons History,” Las Vegas 2010, “Rhetorics of Reason and Restraint: Stoic Rhetoric from Antiquity to the Present,” a Symposium sponsored by the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, Minneapolis

Teaching (University of Illinois) Media and Technology Studies 2014 (Summer), Graduate Seminar: Theories of New Media (CMN 529) 2013 (Fall), Graduate Seminar: Learning to See Communication Systems (CMN 529), co-taught with Sally Jackson 2013 (Summer), Procedural Rhetoric (CMN 496) 2007 (Fall) and 2008 (Fall), Rhetoric and Communication Undergraduate Special Topics on Toronto school of media theory (CMN 199) Rhetorical Theory & History 2014 (Fall), 2013 (Fall), 2012 (Spring and Fall), 2010 (Fall), 2009 (Spring), 2006 (Spring and Fall), The Rhetorical Tradition (CMN 310) 2012 (Spring), Contemporary Rhetorical Theory (CMN 417) 2014 (Fall), 2011 (Spring), Classical Rhetorics (CMN 415) 2011 (Spring), Graduate Seminar: Cold War Rhetorical Culture (CMN 539) 2011 (Fall), 2010 (Spring), Early Modern Rhetorics (CMN 416)

5 2007 (Fall), Graduate Seminar: Rhetoric and Aesthetics (SPCM 532) 2007 (Fall), Rhetoric and Communication (SPCM 199) General Communication Studies 2010, 2012, & 2015 (Summer), Graduate Seminar: Concepts in Communication Studies (CMN 529) Rhetorical Criticism 2012 (Fall) Graduate Seminar: Contemporary Rhetorical Criticism (CMN 538) 2009 (Spring), Lincoln’s Legacies (CMN 396) 2006 (Spring and Fall), Rhetorical Criticism (SPCM 423) Art, Creativity, and Diversity 2009 (Fall), Art, Creativity and Diversity (FAA199), co-taught with Kevin Hamilton Graduate Independent Studies 2014 (Spring) The Rhetorical Tradition, Margaret Yoe 2009 (Fall) “Presence” in Ong, Derrida, and Perleman, Jermaine Martinez 2009 (Fall) “17th Century Rhetoric,” Julia Smith, Heather Blaine, Jon Stone 2008 (Summer) “Legal Rhetoric,” Peter Campbell 2008 (Summer) “Catholic Social Movement Rhetoric,” Sabrina Nash 2007 (Summer) “New Universalisms,” Sabrina Nash 2006 (Summer) “19th Century Religious Rhetoric,” Marissa Bambrey Wolfe

Graduate Advising Director/ Advisor 2015-present, Katie Bruner, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois 2013-present, Alia Bellwood, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois 2013-present, Nikki Weickum, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois 2013-present, Matt Ptichford, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois 2009-2016, Jermaine Martinez, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois 2013-2015, Margaret Yoe, Master’s Student, Communication, University of Illinois 2009-2015, George Boone, PhD, Communication, University of Illinois 2006-2013, Sabrina Marsh, PhD, Communication, University of Illinois 2006-2012, Ian Hill, PhD, Communication, University of Illinois 2007-2009 Adam Rusch, MA, Communication, University of Illinois, 2005-2006 Marissa Bambrey Wolfe, MA, Communication, University of Illinois, Committees 2012-2015, Gaines Hubble, PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2012- present, Katie Irwin, Doctoral Student, Communication 2012-present, Marissa Lowe, Doctoral Student, Communication 2011-present, Mark LaVoie, Doctoral Student, Communication 2011-present, Rohini Singh, Doctoral Student, Communication 2005-2016 Laura Stengrim, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois 2010-2015, Courtney Caudle, PhD, Communication 2010-2014, Julia Smith, PhD, English, University of Illinois 2010-2014, Heather Blaine, PhD, English, University of Illinois 2010-2015, John Stone, PhD, English, University of Illinois 2008-2013, Peter Campbell, PhD, Communication, University of Illinois 2006-2009 Catherine Lamp, PhD, Communication, University of Illinois 2005-2006 Jeremy Engels, PhD, Communication, University of Illinois 2005-06 Gregory Goodale, PhD, Communication, University of Illinois

Academic and Professional Service Editorial Board 2013-present Quarterly Journal of Speech 2015-present, Rhetoric Society Quarterly

6 2015-present, Advances in the History of Rhetoric 2013-14, Communication Yearbook 2011-2013 Rhetoric Society Quarterly Editor 2013-present, Associate Editor, The Infernal Machine blog 2011 Special Issue Guest Editor, Advances in the History of Rhetoric (Rhetorics of Reason and Restraint: Stoic Speech from Antiquity to the Present) Reviewer 2015 Review panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities 2015 Ad hoc reviewer, Rhetoric & Public Affairs 2015 Reader/Manuscript reviewer, Oxford University Press 2015 Ad hoc reviewer, Philosophy & Rhetoric 2014 Ad hoc reviewer, Rhetoric & Public Affairs 2014 Reader/Manuscript reviewer Michigan State University Press 2014 Reader/Manuscript reviewer, University of South Carolina Press, Reader/ Manuscript Reviewer 2103 Ad hoc reviewer, Rhetoric Society Quarterly 2013 Ad hoc reviewer, Rhetoric & Public Affairs 2012-13 Reader/ Manuscript reviewer, University of North Carolina Press 2012 Ad hoc reviewer, Rhetoric & Public Affairs 2012 Ad hoc reviewer, Advances in the History of Rhetoric 2011 Reviewer, National Science Foundation: Science, Technology, and Society 2011 Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of Communication & Religion 2010 Reviewer, National Science Foundation: Science, Technology, and Society 2010 Ad hoc reviewer, Papers on Language and Literature 2010 Ad hoc reviewer, Quarterly Journal of Speech 2010 Reader/ Manuscript reviewer, Lexington Books 2009-10 Ad hoc reviewer Rhetoric & Public Affairs 2009 Ad hoc reviewer, Presidential Studies Quarterly 2008 Ad hoc reviewer, Western Journal of Communication 2008 Competitive paper reviewer, Public Address Division, National Communication Association 2007 Ad hoc reviewer, Presidential Studies Quarterly 2007 Ad hoc reviewer, Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies 2004-06 Competitive Paper reviewer, American Society for the History of Rhetoric, National Communication Association 2006 Competitive Paper reviewer, Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division, National Communication Association 2006 Competitive Paper reviewer, Public Address Division, Western Communication Association Society/ Disciplinary Service 2013 Nominee, Rhetoric Society of America Board 2012 Kneupper Award Committee, Rhetoric Society of America 2011-14 Member, Committee on Interorganizational and Interdisciplinary Cooperation, Rhetoric Society of America 2011-13 Planning Committee, International Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference 2011, Co-Organizer, Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, Seminar on the Digital Humanities and the History of Rhetoric 2010-12, Advisory Board, American Society for the History of Rhetoric 2010-11, Immediate Past President, American Society for the History of Rhetoric 2011, Nominating Committee, Public Address Division, National Communication Association 2009-10 President, American Society for the History of Rhetoric 2009-10, Board Member, Alliance of Rhetoric 2010 Program Chair, American Society for the History of Rhetoric Division, National Communication Association

7 2010 Organizer American Society for the History of Rhetoric Symposium, “Rhetorics of Reason and Restraint: Stoic Speech from Antiquity to the Present,” Minneapolis, MN, May 2010. 2008-09 Vice-president (and president-elect) of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric 2009 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award Committee Chair, National Communication Association 2008 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award Committee, National Communication Association 2007-10 Membership Officer, American Society for the History of Rhetoric. 2004-06 American Society for the History of Rhetoric Steering Committee Member Departmental/ University Service 2015 Search Committee Chair, Instructor in Communication, Department of Communication, University of Illinois 2014-15 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (University of Illinois) Courses and Curricula Committee 2014-15 Search Committee Chair, Instructor in Communication, Department of Communication, University of Illinois 2014-15 Search Committee Member, Interpersonal Communication Faculty, Department of Communication, University of Illinois 2014 Search Committee Member, Director, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities 2013-14 Search Committee Chair, Academic Advisor, Department of Communication 2013-14 Advisory Board Member, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities 2013-14 Search Committee Chair, New Media Faculty Search, Department of Communication 2013 University Representative at the CIC-ACM Meeting on the Digital Humanities 2013 Planning Committee, Liberal Arts & Sciences Open House 2012-13 Search Committee Member, Race & Ethnicity Faculty Search, Department of Communication 2012-13 Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Communication 2011-12 Center for Writing Studies Campuswide Advisory Committee 2011 Chair, Search Committee for Associate Director, Program for Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security 2010-11 Committee for Academic Integrity and Capricious Grading, Department of Communication 2010 (Fall) Organizer, Rhetorical Studies Reading Group 2009-2015 Faculty Supervisor, CMN 101 and CMN 111/ 112, Department of Communication, University of Illinois 2008-09 Organizer, Rhetorical Studies Reading Group 2007-09 LAS Humanities Council Scholarship and Honors Committee, University of Illinois 2007-08 Committee for Academic Integrity and Capricious Grading, Department of Communication 2007 Search Committee Member, Course Director Position, Department of Communication, University of Illinois 2006-07 Colloquium Committee, Department of Communication, University of Illinois

Professional Memberships American Society for the History of Rhetoric National Communication Association Rhetoric Society of America

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